Sir Bertelot
Role: knight · First appears: Book XII, Chapter II
Life events
- Breuse Saunce Pité and Sir Bertelot attack Sir Bliant, wound him severely, and force him to flee toward his castle.(Book XII, Chapter II)
- With: Sir Bliant Breuse Saunce Pité
- “and these two ran both at once upon Sir Bliant, and brake their spears upon his body. And then they drew out swords and made great battle, and fought long together. But at the last Sir Bliant was sore wounded, and felt himself faint; and then he fled on horseback toward his castle.”
- Sir Lancelot breaks free, confronts the attackers, pulls Sir Bertelot down, and knocks Breuse Saunce Pité from his horse.(Book XII, Chapter II · 📍 Castle Blank)
- With: Sir Lancelot Sir Bliant Breuse Saunce Pité
- “And then Sir Launcelot brake the chains from his legs and off his arms, and in the breaking he hurt his hands sore; and so Sir Launcelot ran out at a postern, and there he met with the two knights that chased Sir Bliant; and there he pulled down Sir Bertelot with his bare hands from his horse, and therewithal he wrothe his sword out of his hand; and so he leapt unto Sir Breuse, and gave him such a buffet upon the head that he tumbled backward over his horse’s croup.”
- Sir Bliant strikes off Sir Bertelot’s hand, causing both brothers to flee.(Book XII, Chapter II · 📍 Castle Blank)
- With: Sir Bliant Breuse Saunce Pité
- “And when Sir Bertelot saw there his brother have such a fall, he gat a spear in his hand, and would have run Sir Launcelot through: that saw Sir Bliant, and struck off the hand of Sir Bertelot. And then Sir Breuse and Sir Bertelot gat their horses and fled away.”
Book XII, Chapter II
- siblings with Breuse Saunce Pité (Breuse Saunce Pité and Sir Bertelot are brothers.) “the one was Breuse Saunce Pité, and his brother, Sir Bertelot”
- with Sir Bliant (Sir Bertelot fought Sir Bliant.) “these two ran both at once upon Sir Bliant, and brake their spears upon his body. And then they drew out swords and made great battle, and fought long together.”
- with Sir Lancelot (Sir Lancelot defeated and disarmed Sir Bertelot.) “there he pulled down Sir Bertelot with his bare hands from his horse, and therewithal he wrothe his sword out of his hand”
- with Sir Lancelot (interaction) “and there he pulled down Sir Bertelot with his bare hands from his horse, and therewithal he wrothe his sword out of his hand”
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Extracted from the original text of Le Morte d'Arthur. Made with Rho MD.